What Are The Different Types of Chemotherapy?
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Do you realize how painful it is to watch someone dear to you ravished by the fight with cancer? And it all has to do with the perception we have of cancer and with the very intense chemotherapy medication administered to patients diagnosed with this malignant disease. All sorts of treatments and therapeutic approaches are available, but in general lines, it is all reduced to types of chemotherapy.
Challenges are present within any solution meant to treat cancer. When choosing one from the several types of chemotherapy, the doctor takes into account the location of the tumor, its size, the stage of the disease and the health condition of the patient.
It’s rather confusing and pointless most of the time to go through all the types of chemotherapy, but there are people who find such a list both informative and useful. It includes alkylating agents chemotherapy, alkaloid-based treatment, anti-tumor antibiotics, antimetabolites, topoisomerase inhibitors, antineoplastics and so on. Each of the drug classes mentioned above may count dozens of types of medication out of which the doctor should select the appropriate ones.
Out of the many types of chemotherapy treatments the doctors determine the suitable one starting from a disease protocol specific to every patient in particular that mentions his/her reaction to the treatment. All the medical tests run for a certain patient contribute to influencing the decision for certain types of chemotherapy over others. For example, the response rate of a combination of drugs selected out of several types of chemotherapy may be of 70% which means that, out of 100, 70 patients with that type of tumor and the same stage of cancer have responded positively to that treatment.
The response rate may have been minimum or non-existent in the remaining thirty patients. Other types of chemotherapy will be administered immediately if an individual fails to respond to one of them.
All in all, the choice and application of types of chemotherapy are tricky. Doctors need to constantly monitor and administer tests to their patients in order to make the right decisions at the right time for them. This line of work requires a great deal of responsibility and carries lots of emotional burdens because someone’s life may depend only on the doctor’s decision.
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